CREATE an EVENT
 
INDEPENDENT EVENTS You can create an event on your own or you can gather a group of friends • Think Big Big events can make big money for things like scooters or wheelchair ramps for a kid who needs one to be able to go home from the hospital. Here are some ideas to start you off: • Community Events Our flagship chapter in Montclair, NJ has had a number of very successful fundraisers that were affiliated with the community including soccer events, theater events at the local University, as well as events at town-wide festivals. Think about taking advantage of the things going on in your own community and see if there is a connection you can make. Is there a Community Fair coming up? Or a Voter Registration Drive near Election Day? Is there a Sidewalk Sale or a Founder’s Day Celebration? Or a local sporting event? Contact the people running the event, introduce them to Kids Helping Kids and ask them if you can participate in one of the following ways: — See if you can run the concession stand and take a percentage of the profits. Have a Kids Helping Kids sign, explain who you are, and what you’re doing. While you make change for that Milky Way Bar, ask for donations. — Sell baked goods you and your friends make. Brownies, cookies, anything you can pick up and eat go a long way at a community function. •Social Entrepreneurship (SELL IT!) You’re a bunch of talented, creative people. Sell it! Kids Helping Kids has been involved in two very successful social entrepreneurial projects, the Kids Helping Kids Heart Bracelet and the KHK Art Card project. If you’re interested in these projects, contact us. You can also take advantage of your own creativity and create artwork, jewelry (beads, silver, shells etc), arts and craft (sculpture, collage, metalwork etc.) and find ways to sell it to raise money. At any function be sure to have plenty of posters and material, be sure to talk and talk and talk about Kids Helping Kid and why you’re raising money. Have lots of printed material on hand to give away. And ask for donations! Have a donations jar whenever you're out in public!
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